Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

By Breandan Dezendorf, Ken Mink, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins

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What's Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed about?

Practical Operations is about the difference between running

your IT organization the "Right Way" and the Practical Way. Your hosts talk

about the theory of small to web scale operations and DevOps and then discuss

how to get the most out of these tools in practice.

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Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed episodes:

06.28.2023
Episode 137 - Amin Astaneh
Where we have Amin Astaneh on as a guest to discuss DevOps transitions, culture, consultancies and how to move forward in this career.
03.27.2023
Episode 135 - Resisting Automation
Where we discuss people’s tendencies to resist automation of tasks, for whatever reason.
03.13.2023
Episode 134 - ChatGPT
Where we ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the dangers of trusting AI tools to be correct.
07.25.2022
Episode 133 - Shadow IT
Where we discuss how damaging Shadow IT can be, how to identify it, how to think about it, and some strategies for getting rid of it.
04.18.2022
Episode 132 - HollywoodOS - The Net
Where look at Hollywood’s inability to get technology in movies even remotely correct… this time, we’re talking about “The Net”, a 1995 Sandra Bullock movie, where so many things are just… wrong.
03.08.2022
Episode 131 - COVID, Burnout, And The Great Resignation
Where we discuss the longer term effects of Covid, burnout, and The Great Resignation.
02.22.2022
Episode 130 - VSCode and Cloud IDEs
Where we discuss another thing that is eating the world - Visual Studio Code. We also talk about IDEs in general.
01.24.2022
Episode 129 - BeyondCorp
Where we discuss setting up a zero-trust network access policy - what Google referrs to as “BeyondCorp”.
12.31.2021
Episode 128 - 2021 How We Haven't Missed Ya
Where we discuss the end of 2021 and what we expect in 2022.
12.12.2021
Episode 127 - Scaling Humans
Where we discuss how to scale things when the human element is the limited capacity.
11.29.2021
Episode 126 - SRE Doesn't Scale
Where we discuss Tyler Treat’s essay about how the paradigm of SRE doesn’t scale.
11.15.2021
Episode 125 - Observability Defined
Where we discuss observability, prompted by a post on The New Stack by Charity Majors, looking at the current state of observability in the industry.
10.22.2021
Episode 124 - Enforcing Structure On Production
Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts.
10.05.2021
Episode 123 - Outsourcing and Insourcing
Where we discuss outsourcing and insourcing - when to buy a product, when to staff a team, and when to do it all yourself.
09.20.2021
Episode 122 - Cloudstations and Remote Graphical Workstations
Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done.
08.23.2021
Episode 121 - Personal Workstations Away From The Home Office
Where we discuss how we get personal things done away from our work from home workstations, while whishcasting about tech that we think should exist.
08.09.2021
Episode 120 - Building Teams with Jim Browne
Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne.
07.26.2021
Episode 119 - Conducting Interviews
Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic.
07.12.2021
Episode 118 - Imposter Syndrome
Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse.
06.04.2021
Episode 117 - Human Input and Output
Where we discuss human input and output. Who are we kidding? We talked about mechanical keyboards, with very mild diversions into trackballs, trackpads and monitors. This is a notes-heavy episode, please look at the shownotes!
05.21.2021
Episode 116 - How The Fundamental Constants of The Universe Hate Us And Want Us To Fail
Where we discuss one of the fundamental physical constants that is always trying to bring us down - the speed of light - and how latency for round trip times impacts programming, systems design, and organizational behavior.
05.07.2021
Episode 115 - Your Employer Isn't Your Family
Where we discuss the seperation of work and personal life, and why such a seperation is both crucial and hard to do.
04.23.2021
Episode 114 - Terraforming Existing Clouds
Where we discuss getting control of an existing, organically built cloud environment, and how to structure said control. Monolitic terraform? Hundreds of terraform projects? CloudFormations? Control Tower?
04.09.2021
Episode 113 - Licensing
Where we discuss licensing and how it intersects with everything we do - from Elastic adopting Mongo’s SSPL to the mess that was made public with Wireguard, PFSense and BSD. Licenses are important, folks, choose them well and with purpose,...
03.27.2021
Episode 112 - Large Scale Networking With Brian Miller
Where we talk with Brian Miller about running large scale networks for a major university and his adventures in Internet2, IPv6 and wireless all come up.
03.12.2021
Episode 111 - Host Your Own Code
Where we discuss the risks you take using package managers and code you do not host yourself.
02.26.2021
Episode 110 - Planning For Failure, or a Failure To Plan
Where we discuss the failure of the Texas energy grid and how it relates to a failure to plan ahead. We look at active/active, n+1 and other cases where redundancy sneaks away from you.
02.12.2021
Episode 109 - Deplatforming
Where we discuss deplatforming, through the lens of what happened to social media sites after the political upheaval in early January.
01.29.2021
Episode 108 - Kubernetes with Seth McCombs
Where we discuss the state of the Kubernetes project with someone who knows a lot about it - Seth McCombs. Seth, a Cloud Orchestration Software Engineer at Workday, is member of Kubernetes SIG-Release and SIG-Docs. The conversation covers the qualities...
01.15.2021
Episode 107 - New Opportunities
Where we discuss how to handle opportunities - ones at your current job, how to approach new jobs, and tackling some of the personal sides of things.
01.01.2021
Episode 106 - The Ending Of The Year
Where we discuss the year this was, what we thought it was going to be, and how wrong we really were. We also discuss the future a little bit, and try to find patterns in this chaos.
12.18.2020
Episode 105 - Modern TLS
Where we talk with Darren Fallis about some of the reasons you should really upgrade to a modern TLS version, and what that means in practical terms. At the moment, this is TLS 1.3, but as with all advice -...
12.04.2020
Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom
Where we talk with Evan Bloom about getting started in this industry, coming from a very different world of music. This includes where to get started with linux, programming and generally how to look at the careers we talk about...
11.20.2020
Episode 103 - Pet Peeves
Where we talk about our pet peeves - technical red flags that tell you something about an environment isn’t right.
11.06.2020
Episode 102 - The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Where we talk about the many lies we tell ourselves, even when we know better.
10.23.2020
Episode 101 - Long Term Configuration Management
Where we talk about some mergers and aquisitions in the configuration management space and discuss somewhat about where the industry is headed.
10.09.2020
Episode 100 - DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, Revisited
Where we revisit our first episode, The Culture of DevOps, and talk about what’s changed in the last 5 years, including the growth of the Site Reliability Engineering movement to implement DevOps, and some thoughts about the next 5 years.
09.25.2020
Episode 99 - Elasticsearch Distributions
Where we discuss Elasticsearch’s X-Pack as compared to the OpenDistro For Elasticsearch, and talk a little bit about being a good citizen for open source projects.
09.11.2020
Episode 98 - Histograms and Service Level Objectives
Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look...
08.28.2020
Episode 97 - Threat Modeling with Greg Harris
Where we interview Greg Harris, Principal Security Engineer at Fitbit. We cover security issues around BeyondCorp, VPNs, Docker, and vulnerability scanning. With Greg we learn how to stop reacting to security incidents and instead focus on building threat models for...
08.12.2020
Episode 96 - ARM and the Future of Computing
Where we discuss the possible rise of ARM on the desktop as a replacement or challenge to the supremecy of Intel’s venerable x86_64 instruction set.
07.31.2020
Episode 95 - Being Cloud Agnostic
Where we talk about being multi-cloud, along with the reasons and challenges of doing so, and talk about if it is really worth it.
07.17.2020
Episode 94 - Findability With JP Sherman
Where we discuss findability and search with a special guest - JP Sherman, the Manager of Search and Findability at Red Hat.
07.02.2020
Episode 93 - Linux On The Desktop
Where we talk about building a modern linux desktop, for both personal and professional use. There’s some talk about Intel vs AMD, Apple and ARM, and video cards… all in good fun.
06.19.2020
Episode 92 - CloudTruth and Configuration Management
Where we talk to CloudTruth’s Matt Conway and Greg Arnette about why they are configuration management geeks, and some of the realities of looking at problems with configuration management in mind.
06.05.2020
Episode 91 - Is DevNetOps a Thing? With Brandon Peskin
Where we talk at length with Brandon Peskin, a Sysadmin turned Network Engineer, who has pretty much seen and done it all - from microwave repeaters across parking lots to massively redundant datacenter to cloud migration projects.
05.22.2020
Episode 90 - Practice
Where we discuss practice, and how it makes everything easier - for both personal and professional things.
05.08.2020
Episode 89 - Simple Systems Are More Available
Where we discuss Greg Kogan’s Article, “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime” and rant about simplicity and how to choose what things to spend time running.
04.24.2020
Special Episode - Considerations For Moving An Engineering Organization Fully Remote
Where we invite Ashi Sheth, the Senior Manager of Global End User Services at LinkedIn, to talk about the logistical and personal considerations of moving a 20,000 user organization to full-time remote work with very little advanced notice.
04.10.2020
Episode 88 - Experimenting With Kubernetes On ARM
Where we talk to Ken Mink about his trials and tribulations setting up a Raspberry Pi/Rock64 Kubernetes cluster.

What's Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed about?

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Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed episodes:

Episode 137 - Amin Astaneh

Episode 135 - Resisting Automation

Episode 134 - ChatGPT

Episode 133 - Shadow IT

Episode 132 - HollywoodOS - The Net

Episode 131 - COVID, Burnout, And The Great Resignation

Episode 130 - VSCode and Cloud IDEs

Episode 129 - BeyondCorp

Episode 128 - 2021 How We Haven't Missed Ya

Episode 127 - Scaling Humans

Episode 126 - SRE Doesn't Scale

Episode 125 - Observability Defined

Episode 124 - Enforcing Structure On Production

Episode 123 - Outsourcing and Insourcing

Episode 122 - Cloudstations and Remote Graphical Workstations

Episode 121 - Personal Workstations Away From The Home Office

Episode 120 - Building Teams with Jim Browne

Episode 119 - Conducting Interviews

Episode 118 - Imposter Syndrome

Episode 117 - Human Input and Output

Episode 116 - How The Fundamental Constants of The Universe Hate Us And Want Us To Fail

Episode 115 - Your Employer Isn't Your Family

Episode 114 - Terraforming Existing Clouds

Episode 113 - Licensing

Episode 112 - Large Scale Networking With Brian Miller

Episode 111 - Host Your Own Code

Episode 110 - Planning For Failure, or a Failure To Plan

Episode 109 - Deplatforming

Episode 108 - Kubernetes with Seth McCombs

Episode 107 - New Opportunities

Episode 106 - The Ending Of The Year

Episode 105 - Modern TLS

Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom

Episode 103 - Pet Peeves

Episode 102 - The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Episode 101 - Long Term Configuration Management

Episode 100 - DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, Revisited

Episode 99 - Elasticsearch Distributions

Episode 98 - Histograms and Service Level Objectives

Episode 97 - Threat Modeling with Greg Harris

Episode 96 - ARM and the Future of Computing

Episode 95 - Being Cloud Agnostic

Episode 94 - Findability With JP Sherman

Episode 93 - Linux On The Desktop

Episode 92 - CloudTruth and Configuration Management

Episode 91 - Is DevNetOps a Thing? With Brandon Peskin

Episode 90 - Practice

Episode 89 - Simple Systems Are More Available

Special Episode - Considerations For Moving An Engineering Organization Fully Remote

Episode 88 - Experimenting With Kubernetes On ARM